Top executives and cybersecurity: a fickle relationship?

For decades now the relationships between CISOs and their top executives have been a matter of touch and go. In the early 2000s, following 9/11 and a number of high profile worms such as Code Red and Nimda, cybersecurity jumped from a marginal, often ignored, topic to front and center in the boardroom.
However, as weeks and months went by, interest and the urgency around cybersecurity waned. It was ignited again in 2003, as more enterprises geared themselves toward becoming Sarbanes-Oxley compl